Turning for Home

Remember the name Barney Norris. He's a new writer in his mid-twenties, but already outstanding.

The Times

Barney Norris is a rare and precious talent

Evening Standard

This novel firmly establishes Barney as one of the most insightful and attuned writers of his generation. He negotiates all the huge and hugely important themes - love, family, loss, conflict, pain, the storm-blown paths we all travel - with such grace and absolute empathy. It's a life-affirming, beautiful and achingly poignant book.

Donal Ryan

Everything he writes about love, loss, grief, desolation and moments of hope and illumination rings absolutely true. It's the real stuff.

Michael Frayn

Deeply moving . . . readers would do well to make the acquaintance of Barney Norris, who has the potential to become a hugely significant novelist in the decades ahead.

John Boyne

Courageous . . . memorable . . . so moving that one wonders why as a society we are so much more eager to hear about young love than old . . . it is incidental moments that remain vivid in memory once the book is closed, small glimpses of unsuspected inner lives.

Guardian

Impressive

Financial Times

Utterly convincing...profound and elegiac

Daily Mail

Norris handles his themes – loneliness, regret, reconciliation – with great sensitivity’

The Observer

By turns lyrical and stark, emotionally charged and unflinchingly factual . . . a harrowing tour de force that ends on a redemptive note

The Lady

Turning for Home is a resonant portrayal of memory, and Barney Norris a writer of impressive talent.

Times Literary Supplement